When Curb Your Enthusiasm first came out, I tried a couple episode and did not like it at all.

A few years later, everyone is raving about this great show. (Well, every guy. The ladies don't seem to be big Larry David fans.) So I give it another shot, and I love it! Great show--I can't understand why I hadn't been watching it the whole time.

Then I figure it out. The early episodes were very heavy with Jeff Garlin. Later seasons, not as much Jeff.

The funniest thing to come out of Jeff Garlin's mouth would be if he actually ate Larry David and then threw him up.

As an aside, although car windows aren't supposed to be unbreakable, they're supposed to be pretty darn tough. Even the Cobra Kai guy cut his hand up pretty badly, and that was toned down for cinematic purposes; he should have broken some bones. I don't see any reports of Garlin being hurt; were the windows defective or something?

skozlaw:Larry David and Chuck Lorre are two people I wouldn't mind never hearing about again. Lorre was only funny when he had John Goodman to rely on and David was only funny when he had Jerry Seinfeld.

Take away their comedic crutches and those two are less interesting than an empty, whitewashed room.

I like Curb Your Enthusiasm, but I can understand why some people don't. The character Larry plays is oftentimes an outright asshole, and he doesn't shy away from it. The plots are absurdist, but that's the point - put this guy who clearly should not be able to function in society if he's really like this, let him get into trouble usually because of something he started, but still find a way to make the viewer identify with him and empathize with him even as you see him making the absolute worst decisions he could time and time again. It's cringey to be sure, but it's an outlet to be able to laugh at yourself for the ego-driven self destructive things we all do from time to time, Larry is the proxy.

Chuck Lorre... eh, it's lowest common denominator traditional sitcom stuff with a dirty streak. His shows aren't anything groundbreaking, but for mindless entertainment they can be fun, and he is clever with wordplay, double entendres, and slipping stuff past the censors.

I have literally never cracked even a smile while watching the Big Bang Theory. Even Three and a Half Men, as utterly, mind-numbingly stupid as it is, has it's guilty moments, but BBT... I just... I just feel like they completely forget to write any jokes.

And I'm not picky about entertainment. I watch Bob's Burgers FFS...

browntimmy:skozlaw: ...and Jerry Seinfeld was only funny when he had Larry David.

You had that backwards so I fixed it.

It works either way. Neither one of them is funny without the other and a supporting cast. Hell, even on Seinfeld a lot of the funniest characters were usually the one-offs and perimeter characters like Crazy Joe Davola, the Soup Nazi and Puddy.

skozlaw:It works either way. Neither one of them is funny without the other and a supporting cast. Hell, even on Seinfeld a lot of the funniest characters were usually the one-offs and perimeter characters like Crazy Joe Davola, the Soup Nazi and Puddy.

Which obviously had nothing to do with Larry and Jerry creating them and writing their lines.

There were some real gems later on in Seinfeld and I think the show very much finished while the writing was still pretty sharp (the finale being a bit maddening, however).I loved that backwards episode.